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Pictured here are two of the four defendants, who face court on charges of involvement in the gang-style shooting of Bonev and his five bodyguards. Photo by BGNES
Sofia City Court postponed once again the hearing of the trial over the murder of alleged mobster Milcho Bonev, dubbed Baj Mile, who was shot in 2004.
The next hearing has been scheduled for March 9.
Bonev, one of the founders of Bulgaria's obsolete ex-grouping SIC, was executed along with his bodyguards on July 30, 2004 in broad daylight in Slavia restaurant-garden in Sofia's Ovcha Kupel district.
Tihomir Dochev, Stilian Georgiev, Georgi Stefanov, and Anatoli Mankov, were arrested on charges of involvement in the gang-style shooting of Bonev and the five bodyguards.
Baj Mile was believed to be an important link in the drug trafficking and distributing network on the Balkans, investigated by Bulgarian and Serbian special services.
The wife of alleged Balkan drug lord Sreten Josic, Vera Milosavljevi?, has been expelled from Bulgaria as a threat to national security, according to Serbian news outlets.
The house in which a small bomb that went off in the wee hours Saturday in Bulgarian capital Sofia belongs to the widow of murdered Bulgarian businessman Milcho Bonev, aka Bay Mile, according to reports.
The Bulgarian legislative authorities have received by the Serbian Prosecutor's Office information concerning a 2004 assassination of a Bulgarian mafia boss.
Sofia City Court postponed once again the hearing of the trial over the murder of the alleged mobster Milcho Bonev, dubbed Baj Mile, who was shot in 2004.
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A 53-year-old man with a criminal record has been detained in Bulgaria during a targeted police operation against vote buying, carried out in the village of Brestnitsa in the Lovech region
A criminal network linked to Bulgaria has been accused of defrauding dozens of elderly people in northern Greece through an elaborate telephone scam that resulted in losses exceeding 600,000 euros, according to Kathimerini.
A premeditated murder investigation is underway after a violent incident in the village of Kokalyane near Sofia, where a man is accused of fatally stabbing another person inside a garage that had been adapted for living
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